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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Knew
Live
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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I just want to not be me.
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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